Abstract:The authors
believe that the consciousness of humans basically originates from languages and
their association-like flow of consciousness, and that feelings are generated
accompanying respective languages. We incorporated artificial consciousness into
a robot; achieved an association flow of language like flow of consciousness;
and developed a robot called Kansei that expresses its feelings according to the
associations occurring in the robot. To be able to fully communicate with
humans, robots must be able to display complex expressions, such as a sense of
being thrilled. We therefore added to the Kansei robot a device to express
complex feelings through its facial expressions.

The Kansei robot is
actually an artificial skull made of aluminum, with servomotors built into it.
The face is made of relatively soft polyethylene, which is formed to appear like
a human face. Facial expressions are generated using 19 servomotors built into
the skull, which pull metal wires attached to the facial “skin” to create
expressions. The robot at present is capable of making six basic expressions as
well as complex expressions, such as happiness and fear combined.

Keywords:Robot,Kansei robot, humanoid robots, facial expressions

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